For Jake Gardner, Head Brewer of Westbound & Down (Idaho Springs, Colorado), brewing means defining targets for a beer and mapping out the way in which to attain these targets, naming the challenges and articulating options at every step of the method. Continuing in a totally deliberate and detailed method brings readability to the method, and the methodical method has served Gardner effectively over his previous decade in skilled brewing.
After chasing a medal within the hotly contested Imperial IPA class at GABF and World Beer Cup, Gardner’s endurance and method was rewarded in 2019 with a silver medal. However the Westbound & Down method is something however typical—with English yeast strains and particular bittering hops that scrub off the palate shortly, the brewery has carved out a tender and fruity but brilliant and tightly managed area of interest within the broader world of West Coast IPA. They proceed to increase that area of interest with artistic explorations of up to date hops, yeast experimentation, and specializing in the trivialities of brewing that make a big effect on the completed beer.
Within the barleywine class, Gardner has known as upon his background in brewing English-style ales at Hogshead in Denver, and discusses the assorted design considerations for these barrel-aged beers designed to age. From managing free amino nitrogen to double mashing and dialing again oxidative malts, Gardner discusses the methods they’ve constructed their medal-winning Louie barleywine to style nice not solely when contemporary, but additionally with a couple of years beneath its belt because it ages and oxidizes gracefully.
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